Sentences with phrase «fourth quarter of last year»

«It's still October and we've already sold more Kindle devices since launch than we did during the entire fourth quarter of last year — astonishing because the fourth quarter is the busiest time of year on Amazon,» Kessel said.

Papa John's stock tanked after the company and the NFL mutually decided to end the pizza firm's sponsorship of the professional football league, and after Papa John's missed analyst expectations for the fourth quarter of last year.

EPA chief Scott Pruitt, crediting Trump with creating almost 50,000 jobs «in the coal sector» since the fourth quarter of last year.

A 2014 survey conducted by Powersports Business magazine and RBC Capital Markets indicates retailers that sell BRP vehicles are outperforming their competitors: 32 % of BRP dealers reported an increase in motorcycle sales of at least 20 % in the fourth quarter of last year (compared with 13 % for dealers overall), and 42 % of BRP dealers expect another 20 % jump in sales for 2015.

But Groupon has struggled significantly since then, and after posting a loss of $ 81.1 million in the fourth quarter of last year, its board axed Mason.

Investor sentiment shifted dramatically in the fourth quarter of last year, according to venture capital researcher CB Insights, which released its fourth - quarter report on global venture capital financing on Tuesday.

Kniffen noted that in the fourth quarter of last year during the holiday shopping season, «traffic was down 8 or 9 percent in the enclosed malls and we saw growth online of almost 20 percent.»

Millennial homeownership fell from a three - year high of 36 percent in the fourth quarter of last year back to 35.3 percent in the first quarter of this year, according to the U.S. Census.

But that result is actually a little bit better than what happened during the fourth quarter of last year when the economy shrank 6.3 percent.

Although the SBA backed 37 percent more loans in the fourth quarter of last year, it was still just about half the 20,000 loans it backed in the final quarter of 2007.

Total sales volume fell 12 percent compared with the fourth quarter of last year — the lowest quarterly level in six years, according to a report from Douglas Elliman Real Estate and Miller Samuel, the appraisal firm.

Louis Bacon's Moore Capital bet on casino stocks in the fourth quarter of last year, a filing shows.

The more than 100 hedge funds that owned Valeant going into the fourth quarter of last year lost $ 15.2 billion over the next six months, according to research firm Symmetric.io.

In the first quarter of 2016, the industry sold $ 1.5 billion of securitized online loans to investors, The Wall Street Journal reports, a decrease of 21 percent from the fourth quarter of last year.

There was red ink on the books in the fourth quarter of last year, with net losses that totalled $ 1 million.

The economy overall grew at a tepid annual rate of 1.9 percent in the fourth quarter of last year, and some economists expect that growth to increase to 2.2 percent or more this year.

Our diners ordered 22 million times in the fourth quarter, 3.6 million more orders than the fourth quarter of last year.

• Tesla's negative free cash flow increased to about $ 1 billion in the first quarter, up from $ 277 million during the fourth quarter of last year.

Since early on, the Model X has failed to meet sales expectations, with the company revealing in January that it was only able to deliver 200 Model X units in the fourth quarter of last year.

In the fourth quarter of last year, the quarterly earning of Facebook was recorded $ 12.97 billion and MAUs grew by 14 % from year - ago quarter to 2.13 billion.

It has had a lukewarm reception from mobile operators and buyers, with only 2m handsets shipped in the fourth quarter of last year.

Cirrus may be overly conservative here, but with global smartphone unit sales declining during the fourth quarter of last year for the first time ever, some pessimism is probably warranted.

«Since the fourth quarter of last year until most recently, we've added almost 50,000 jobs in the coal sector,» Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt said...

Using these big data metrics, we were able to more accurately predict that consumption in the U.S. was not as robust in the fourth quarter of last year and so far has not picked up this year despite expectations to the contrary.

If we look back at the dip in oil prices in the fourth quarter of last year, general sentiment among investors was that consumers would use their savings at the pump to spend more at the store.

The retailer reported better - than - expected earnings for the fourth quarter of last year, bringing in revenue of $ 8.7 billion, a 1.8 percent rise over the year - earlier period, and positive same - store sales.

In the fourth quarter of last year, investment banks rode the tail end of a year - long bull market in US stocks, underwriting equity issues for companies that wanted to cash in before a new reality set in.

«After 6 1/2 years of more than 20 percent top - line growth that ended in the fourth quarter of last year, we are clearly operating in a different environment, particularly in our largest market [of] North America,» Plank told analysts and investors on Tuesday.

The company disclosed late on Tuesday that its daily visitor count fell in March, slipping below the 191m average for the first quarter as a whole — though it was still above the average of 187m in the fourth quarter of last year.

Growth is quite low in Europe, even though it's slightly more positive than in the fourth quarter of last year.

Time Warner Cable lost 215,000 video subscribers in the fourth quarter of last year, but gained 55,000 broadband customers.

The number of NYC students charged with sex crimes in the fourth quarter of last year jumped by 73 percent from the same period in 2016, according to NYPD school - safety data.

Tesla said it had produced almost 10,000 Model 3 electric cars in the first three months of 2018, a significant increase from the fourth quarter of last year but still short of the goal that investors hoped the company would reach.

The ONS also disclosed that household spending has grown by 0.6 per cent, or # 1.6 billion, in the fourth quarter of last year, driven by a huge rise in people buying life insurance as the economy recovers.

And if you look at the fourth quarter of last year, 16.5 % of our pharmaceutical sales came from new products, which is the highest for any big pharma.

More recent entrants Tinder and Plenty of Fish logged the most downloads among dating apps in the fourth quarter of last year, according to App Annie.

Blankenship is particularly pleased with the growing reputation of Tesla, noting that a whopping 1.6 million people traipsed through 19 of the company's 23 U.S. company stores [Tesla doesn't have traditional dealerships] in the fourth quarter of last year.

In the fourth quarter of last year, Thalia's sales rose 7.2 %, while the rest of the book trade saw a decline of 4.8 %, according to buchreport.

«Apple built upon its strong March iPad launch and ended the quarter with its best - ever shipment total for the iPad, outrunning even the impressive shipment record it set in the fourth quarter of last year,» said Tom Mainelli, research director, Mobile Connected Devices.

The company posted a loss of NT$ 50 million in the fourth quarter of last year, from a profit of NT$ 1.17 billion in the previous quarter and a profit of NT$ 891 million for the previous year.

On Wednesday, ABA CEO Oren Teicher told Digital Book World attendees that «not only are indie booksellers surviving in extraordinarily turbulent times, but many... are thriving, even recording record sales numbers for the fourth quarter of last year.»

Looking forward to the fourth quarter, Amazon expects net sales to fall between $ 16.45 billion and $ 18.65 billion, 27 - 44 % growth over the fourth quarter of last year.

RBC's measure of affordability put the cost of a single detached house in Vancouver at 109 per cent of the median income in the fourth quarter of last year, meaning the costs are more than a typical household's pre-tax income.

Credit monitoring agency TransUnion says in its latest report that auto loan delinquency rates climbed nearly 10 per cent in the fourth quarter of last year to their worst levels in four years.

TransUnion says that nationally, auto loan delinquency rates were 1.32 per cent in the fourth quarter of last year, up from 1.21 per cent the previous year.

In its latest housing affordability report, RBC says trends continued to vary widely between the country's various real estate markets in the fourth quarter of last year.